London, June 9.
Objection to the Indian Round Table Conference being summoned in the holiday months of August or September ig voiced by the leader of the Conservative Party, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in a letter to\ the Pri Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald.
'The letter, which is dated May! 24, has just' been published. In it Mr. Baldwin expresses the opinion that it would be more conducive to success if the Conference meets in the autumn. Moreover, he declares, useful results are most doubtful long as the communal atmosphere India remains so deeply disturbed. He assumes, says the Conjscrvative leader, that the Confer-Jence will resume where it left off ju January and that questions then settled will not be reopened.
Ramsay MacDonald. replied jon June 5 emphasising the desire Jof the Government to expedite the proceedings, but enumerating the factors which prevented the Con-Hference meeting before September.
Agreeing that some of the recent] outbursts of communal trouble constituted a serious obstacle to a set-loment of Indian aspirations, the Premier said he thought a further meeting of the Minorities Committee jin London might be necessary to bring the subject to an issue. Meanwhile he gave an assurance that the [Conference would not be in the nature of a constituent assembly, but that a Bill embodying the new constitution would duly be submitted to London, June 8.
The Secretary of State for India Mr. Wedgwood Benn, replying to a number of questions in the House of ]Commons to-day, said it was intend-Jed that the personnel of the proposed Federal Structure Committee! should be as before, its, sulphur and inflammable oils, wae attacked and invitation had yet been issued. They"
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